
“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”
“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”
“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.”
Quoted in Theatre Arts Magazine, December 1955 http://books.google.com/books?id=jkNNAAAAYAAJ&q=%22A+kiss+can+be+a+comma+a+question+mark+or+an+exclamation+point%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage
“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation”
“Things past recovery
Are hardly cured with exclamations.”
Barabas, Act I, scene ii
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
Variant: Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
Source: Reaper Man
a remark made in the House of Commons responding to a Laborite speech; reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
Disputed